never a bystander (2014)

Refusing to be enemies (Trailer,2007)

Irene and eleven other women, half of them Palestinian and half of them Jewish, who live in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan, have been meeting every other week since the summer of 2002 to dialogue about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Author Jan Jarboe Russell and Irene paid a visit to the Ann Arbor District Library to discuss Russell’s book, which features a chapter about Irene.

"The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II" is the dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families, many of whom were US citizens, were incarcerated, with approval from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.